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* [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'?
@ 2010-03-04 18:22 Mark Knecht
  2010-03-04 19:13 ` Paul Hartman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Mark Knecht @ 2010-03-04 18:22 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-amd64

I would like emerge -epv @system to be a fairly contained set of
packages. (If possible like it was when I first built the system a
mere 5 weeks ago...) It seems out of control on my system these days
as it wants to emerge 242 packages. One major contributor is not using
a global -cups use flag in make.conf which would reduce it to 178.
That was added to figure out why Gnome didn't see Sups printers at
all. Sure, I would then have to turn on cups for certain packages but
that's OK with me. However I still see cairo, icedtea-bin, virtual
java stuff, alsa-libs, and a bunch of x11-proto files so it doesn't
feel like @system stuff to me

1) Where is the 'system' or '@system' specification on my machine?

2) If you folks run emerge -epv @system then how machine packages do you see?

Cheers,
Mark

P.S. - This actually started as a question about why the newest
version of portage won't emerge without changes in what versions of QT
the system is running and asking why portage requires QT at all, but
I'll get to that one later. ;-)

An interesting if mildly related post, at least in spirit...

http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/02/22/what-s-wrong-with-gentoo-anyway



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2010-03-04 18:22 [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'? Mark Knecht
2010-03-04 19:13 ` Paul Hartman
2010-03-04 22:23   ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-04 23:23     ` Paul Hartman
2010-03-05  1:44       ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-05  2:23         ` Richard Freeman
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2010-03-05  2:31           ` James Ausmus
2010-03-05 16:24             ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-05 17:12               ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-05  2:34         ` malc
2010-03-05  2:42         ` Sylvain Alain

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